Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aspects of training is the only medium whereby effective management of the many branches of government may be achieved. Civil Service examinations in many of the lower brackets are a step towards putting positions which require knowledge and training in one specific field in the hands of those who possess them. The Littauer School proposes not to replace these, nor even to give the training necessary to pass them, and it is designed neither to supply theoretical and general education, nor to omit these from its curriculum...
...reasons. British authorities in Palestine say that the Sheik Farhan was a leader of terrorist activities against such few Arab bigwigs as are known to be friendly to the British, or at least willing to negotiate. The British say that among the "arms" which Sheik Farhan was found to "possess" was one engraved with the name of a recently-assassinated pro-British Arab leader, Radi Abboushi. Such suspicions and circumstantial evidence might not hang a man in England, but the Near East is the Near East...
...closing, Fraprie stated that he felt the present emphasis on stark realism in photography will swing back to something more mixed in character. Photography, he feels, should possess intellectual content as well as realism
Your writers have seized upon this somewhat obsolete, but nevertheless respectable word, and have burdened it with a meaning which it never had and which, because of its derivation, it cannot properly possess. Any student of elementary Greek appreciates that this word signifies "born from light" or "arising as a result of light." It cannot be considered that it conveys the idea, as TIME'S editors wish, that a subject shows to good advantage in a photograph, or "takes a good picture...
Greenville, Del. Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. does not consider its "Old Hickory'' product a table salt. Primarily for curing farm-killed pork, "Old Hickory'' has recently been discovered to possess a pleasing "hammy" flavor, especially good in soups; is sold only by a few swank grocers, such as Philadelphia's John Wagner & Sons, in 4-oz. bottles...